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TAB. XVIII. 
CICINDELA hybrids. 
Class 5. Insecta. Order 1. Coleoptera. 
Gen. Char. Antenna- setaceous. Palpi six, fili- 
form. Jaivs prominent. Eyes large. Thorax 
rounded, marginated. 
Spec. Char. Purplish. Elytra with a lunulated spot 
at their base, an undulated white stripe in the 
middle, and a lunulated spot at the end of each. 
Syn. Cicindela hybrida. Linn . Syst. eel. 13. v. 1. 1920. 
Faun. Suec. 747.* Scop . Ent. cam. 183. Fah. 
Sp. ins. i. 185. n. 6. 
Cicindela maculata. Degeer Ins. v. 4. 1 1 5. n. 3. 
t. 4?.f 8. S chaff, elem. t , 43. Icon. t. 35. f. 10. 
Bergstr. Nomend. i. 26. t. 4. f. 5. 
Mr. L. W. Dillwyn first found the two specimens of 
l his new insect, one evening in May 1803, on the Crumlyn 
Burrows about three miles from Swansea. One of these 
specimens was accidentally lost, but my son G. B. Sowcrbv 
■'ad the good fortune to find another next morning. These 
are all that have been taken of this beautiful insect, that we 
know of, in Great Britain. 
Above purplish, beneath green gold. Thighs and leg^s 
br 'ght red gold. Elytra punctulated, the hollows green gold, 
and risin g s P ur P Ie gold. Suture and margin of the elytra 
P irple gold. Face yellow. Jaws black, with an undulated 
* tri pe, and a lunulated spot at each end of each elytron. ' 
